Quotes About Silence

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

An empty silence descends upon them. How the hell is this supposed to work, anyway? People meet people every day. They talk, they go out, they kiss, they fuck, they fall in love, they make families, and all because they managed to push past any initial introversion and awkwardness to make contact. He wishes they were drunk.

It's funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.

The black-led freedom movement has long insisted that there are two things white folks need to learn: when to shut up and when to speak up. One pitfall of whiteness is thinking you always have something important to say. Anyone who publishes a book about anything is subject to this temptation. But on the other side of the narrow way that leads to life is an equally perilous precipice—the danger of silence when you are the one who must speak up.

But you know the old saying: If you got nothing to hide, why not talk?" "Shit," I said, shaking my head because she knew better and every cop worth a damn knew better. A lot of people went to jail for crimes they didn't commit because they talked when they should have shut up. The

shut me up and talk to me!

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

Why? Because the consequence of remaining silent is worse. Of course, it's easier in the moment to stay silent and avoid conflict. But in the long term, that's deadly. When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies. When should you push back against oppression, despite the danger? When you start nursing secret fantasies of revenge; when your life is being poisoned and your imagination fills with the wish to devour and destroy.

When this does not happen, they don't speak up. They do not or cannot straightforwardly demand recognition. The dark side of their characters emerges, because of their subjugation, and they become resentful.

Tyranny grows slowly, and asks us to retreat in comparatively tiny steps. But each retreat increases the possibility of the next retreat. Each betrayal of conscience, each act of silence (despite the resentment we feel when silenced), and each rationalization weakens resistance and increases the probability of the next restrictive move forward.

You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

I nod. You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

So, I'm communicating, as Freud so rightly stressed, even when silent.

Aunt] Patricia smiled, and we walked in silence for a while. But it wasn't a poisonous silence. It was the sort of silence shared by two people who're comfortable enough not to force a conversation ahead of its logical progression. I found this woman's company to be incredibly soothing.